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Alumni Notebook

Introduction

Please keep in touch! For several years, you are an important part of our lives, and then you disappear! Too often we lose track of our former students. Share with us news of your "life after Miami". How has your Miami Microbiology education benefitted you? What career goals and personal milestones have you achieved? What are your favorite memories of your time spent with the Microbiology Department? Let us hear from you so we can share the possibilities that are open to Microbiology majors with our current students.

Materials and Methods

We have collected submissions from alumni for several years in our newsletters, and we have used this to start our notebook. These profiles serve to spotlight the careers and lives of our alumni. We hope that alumni will continue to add their information, and to update their previous submissions. To add or update your information, please use our Alumni Update Form.

Results (by graduating class)

[ '60-'69 ] [ '70-'79 ] [ '80-'89 ] [ '90-'99 ] [ '00-'10 ]

Preliminary Data (the department was created in 1956)

'36 Ellen Dietz

(Posted 1995)

One of Dr. Stark's students before there was a department of Microbiology, Longwood, Florida

'50 Jack Newton

(Posted 1995)

Wilmington, North Carolina

'55 Joseph "Bernie" Schleicher, PhD

(Posted 1997)

Retired April, 1994 from Abbott Laboratories in Chicago, IL, after 30 years as a senior research virologist (I highly recommend retirement)

'58 E.D. (Don) Beesley

(Posted 1997)

Branch Head, NC, Drinking Water/Milk Laboratory Certification

Class of 1960 - 1969

'61 Robert Zsigray

(Posted 2007)

Retired after teaching 34 years of Microbiology at the University of New Hampshire. I owe my success to Drs. Brady, Stark and Williamson. They were indeed dedicated instructors
chief@metrocast.net

'62 Sandra Gillum

(Posted 1995)

Wilmette, Illinois

'66 John Docherty, PhD

(Posted 1995)

Professor and Chairman of Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine

'66 Carolyn (Hurrell) Smallwood

(Posted 2001)

Environmental Scientist doing Risk Assessment for the National Center for Environmental Assessment, U.S.EPA-Cincinnati
smallwood.carolyn@epa.gov

'67 Linda Devereaux

(Posted 1995)

Tacoma, Washington

'67 Linda Randolph

(Posted 2001)

Fremont, CA
'67-'71 Yale Medical School-Department of Radiobiology research assistant
'76 masters degree architecture
'76-'85 Design/build firm owner
'85-'95 Architecture firm

'68 Peggy Lemaux, PhD

(Posted 2001)

PhD, University of Michigan '77
Presently on faculty at University of California, Berkeley, doing research in genetic engineering of cereal crops
lemauxpg@nature.berkeley.edu

'69 Diane Strmiska Gunderman

(Posted 1995)

Working as a medical technologist in Cape Coral, Florida

'69 Gayle (Hackbush) Ziaskas

(Posted 1997)

Now works in the Finance field, The Nutra Sweet Kelco Co. and gives credit to her years in microbiology with help in her business

Conclusion

By any measure, it is clear that the Department of Microbiology has graduated a talented, productive and successful group of students. We hope more of you will share your success stories over the years to help inspire our current Microbiology majors.

If you are interested in making a financial contribution to help support the work we do in educating the next generation of microbiologists, please visit our Donations webpage.